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Oxford Summer School in Ecological Economics 2019 - Smart and Sustainable Cities: Ecosystems, Economy, Policy
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| Organization:
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Environment Europe
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Training Courses (Duration: 1 week)
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Environment Europe is happy to announce that they have a limited opportunity to offer a £500 scholarship for participants from the developing countries to take part in the Smart and Sustainable Cities Oxford Summer School in Ecological Economics.
The United Nations projects that 68% of global population will live in cities by 2050. This means that we urgently need a new strategic direction for greening our cities and making them smart to reduce the environmental impact of their performance, increase employment and economic viability, and to enhance the quality of life. Such a task requires a thorough assessment of sustainability and smart urban performance to establish areas of improvement, understand the inter-sectoral connections, find and neutralise the most important drivers of CO2 emissions, establish which policies, design approaches and transformations could be most successful to make our cities more sustainable.
The School will address key elements of the new economy transformation, exploring the cutting edge methods and policy applications in ecological economics. With a clear sustainable development focus, it will draw on the expertise of a range of disciplines: economics, ecology, physics, environmental sciences, sociology, psychology, complex systems theory, etc. to address the current challenges: climate change, biodiversity loss, resource depletion, water shortages, social cohesion and achieving sustainability. The course will be composed of a theoretical and applied modules and will address three key elements of the new economy transformation: an industrial ecology approach, multiple criteria methods for decision making and new tools for measuring progress. A particular focus of this forum will be on the synergies between smart and sustainable dimensions in the urban context and how smart technologies could enhance in the urban sustainability performance.
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| Deadline:
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2019/08/01
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| URL:
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http://environmenteurope.org/education/13
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